Weighing Reasons

Errol Lord is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on ethical theory, epistemology, philosophy of action, and aesthetics. He has published papers in these areas in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy, among other places. Barry Maguire is a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Core Faculty Member in the joint UNC/Duke program in Politics, Philosophy, & Economics. He was previously a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at New York University. He works in ethical theory, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics.

Contributors ; Introduction ; 1. An Opinionated Guide to the Weight of Reasons ; Errol Lord & Barry Maguire ; Section One: Machinery in the Theory of Weight ; 2. Conditions, Modifiers, and Holism ; Ralf Bader ; 3. How do reasons accrue? ; Shyam Nair ; 4. Reasons, Reason, and Context ; Daniel Fogal ; 5. Commitment: Worth the Weight ; Alida Liberman & Mark Schroeder ; Section Two: Analytic Issues in the Theory of Weight ; 6. Democratizing Humeanism ; Kate Manne ; 7. Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons ; Joseph Raz ; 8. The Distinction between Justifying and Requiring: Nothing to Fear ; Joshua Gert ; 9. Bearing the Weight of Reasons ; Stephen Kearns ; Section Three: Applications of the Theory of Weight ; 10. Reasoning with Precedents as Constrained Natural Reasoning ; John F. Horty ; 11. Comparativism: The Grounds of Rational Choice ; Ruth Chang ; 12. The Modesty of the Moral Point of View ; Karl Schafer ; 13. Making the <"Hard>" Problem of Moral Normativity Easier ; Stephen Darwall ; 14. The Implementation Problem for Deontology ; Michael Smith and Frank Jackson ; Index